Gender-related Distress Self-Assessment
Helps you reflect on thoughts, feelings, and distress related to gender identity and how your sense of gender may feel over time.
What this assessment explores
For people who experience a mismatch between the gender they were assigned at birth and how they know themselves to be, that experience can bring significant distress – persistent preoccupation, a sense of incongruence, or uncertainty that's hard to hold. This assessment explores two core dimensions of gender dysphoria: how much it's occupying your thoughts and emotions, and how stable your sense of gender identity has felt lately. It's built on the GPSQ-2, a validated clinical measure designed for both adolescents and adults.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 14 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on your experiences over the past two weeks.
The questions touch on things like:
- Preoccupation – how often thoughts about your gender or sex characteristics have been present, and how distressing they've felt
- Instability – how consistent or variable your sense of gender identity has felt from day to day
Your responses give you a clearer picture of where gender-related distress is sitting for you right now – and how it's been shifting over time.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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